Word: befriend
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...TOOK THE GOLD AWAY, by John Leggett. Told with marvelous class and considerable spit and polish, this old-school novel recounts the tale of two Yale classmates who alternately befriend and betray each other well into middle...
...large number of liberals that surround William Buckley is not surprising. It merely demonstrates that an articulate, logical representation of conservative positions will often confound liberals. They befriend Buckley in the way that the vanquished befriend the conqueror. GREGORY G. SCHMIDT Urbana...
...highly successful (if provoked) act of aggression was greeted with enthusiasm by most West European intellectuals." How explain this enthusiasm among so many "Third-World-befriend-ing, antimilitarist intellectuals? Is it that beneath these attitudes there lies something very different-a long-frustrated wish to revenge the humiliation of the past 20 years, to take it out on the fuzzy-wuzzies, as the 'European' Israelis decidedly did? Is it possible, further, that the anti-Americanism of European intellectuals expresses not so much a wish for the triumph of North Viet Nam's peasant army...
...essence of Chambers' character, says Zeligs, is an overriding guilt dating back to the suicide of his brother Richard. Chambers imagined some sort of death pact with his younger, stronger and more personable brother, and since then has sought out brother-figures to befriend and betray. Alger Hiss was one such figure; son, according to Zeligs, were at least half a dozen of Chambers' fellow students, workers and party members...
...thing, C.D. men go out of their way to befriend all sorts of potential demonstrators long before they become uncivilly disobedient. "I can call up any one of them," says C.D. Lieut. George Fencl, "and they tell me just what they are planning. More often than not, they call me." As a result, the police department knows precisely what size force to deploy without wasting men. Sometimes an entire demonstration requires only two C.D. men (invariably a white-Negro team); alert to changing moods, the team can summon help quickly if things start to turn ugly...